9 years ago
U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts is facing a daunting task as drafting begins on the 2018 Farm Bill amid challenges confronting farmers in the President Donald Trump era. He and U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall were in Kansas this week for the first field hearing of the Senate agriculture committee and meetings with constituents about worries over the ...

9 years ago
Nearly 200 storm chasers are paying tribute to the late actor Bill Paxton by spelling out his initials using GPS coordinates on a map depicting the heart of Tornado Alley. The effort coordinated Sunday by Spotter Network spelled out "BP" to honor the leading man in the disaster movie "Twister," which inspired a generation of storm ...

9 years ago
The BTK serial killer's daughter is writing a book about dealing with the emotional trauma of discovering that her father had killed 10 people. The Wichita Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/2l02EZS) Kerri Rawson says she hopes the book help people cope with anxiety, post-traumatic stress, betrayal and depression. Rawson says she experienced all those things after her father's ...

9 years ago
Trout fishing suddenly has gotten better at a Kansas lake. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2ldoJQb) reports that workers from Crystal Lake Fisheries of Ava, Missouri, on Saturday released about 7,000 pounds of trout into Lake Shawnee near Topeka. Shawnee County Parks and Recreation Department spokesman Mike McLaughlin said the annual fish release was started by former parks director ...

9 years ago
A Wichita man has been found guilty of human trafficking. U.S. Attorney Tom Beall says 25-year-old Daederick Lacy was convicted Thursday of sex trafficking of a minor, sex trafficking of an adult, and one count of interstate transportation of a minor for prostitution. Evidence at his trial indicated that two minor females and one adult female worked ...

9 years ago
Eighteen Kansas counties affected by a severe ice storm in January will receive federal disaster aid. The Kansas Adjutant General's office announced Friday that President Donald Trump has granted Gov. Sam Brownback's request for the disaster declaration. The 18 counties were hit by ice Jan. 13-16. Counties eligible for aid are Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth, Ford, Hodgeman, ...

9 years ago
A woman who was taken into custody in connection with a central Kansas shooting that left four people dead has been released from custody. Harvey County authorities say a 42-year-old Newton woman was arrested Thursday. But the sheriff's department said she was released Friday after questioning and investigators don't expect to charge her. Three victims were found ...

9 years ago
GoFundMe sites for the families of an Indian man who was killed and two men who were injured in a shooting at a Kansas bar have raised more than $1 million combined. The four sites were set up to help relatives of Srinivas Kuchibhotla pay for expenses in the wake of his shooting death Wednesday at ...

9 years ago
           The Abilene Cowboys Wrestling Team captured their fourth state title in school history and their first since 2003 with a dominant performance at the 4A State Wrestling Tournament at the Tony’s Pizza Event Center.  Abilene finished the day with 133.5 points with all nine wrestlers placing.  Bonner Springs finished in ...

9 years ago
Kansas has seen its once-conservative Legislature lurch to the center with the flowering of a bipartisan coalition. Democrats and moderate Republicans are bent on erasing much of Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's tax-cutting legacy and ready to bedevil other GOP leaders. In a week's time, the state House approved a huge increase in personal income taxes, voted to ...

9 years ago
Salina Police have made an arrest in connection with a Thursday afternoon shooting. At around 3:00 in the afternoon on Thursday first responders were sent to the parking lot of the Executive Plaza in the 1500 block of East Iron Avenue to the report of a possible shooting. They found 22-year-old Tyler Reinbold suffering from two ...